Gallery: The political rise of Peter Lougheed

A new generation, newly elected in 1967, from left, Len Werry, Lou Hyndman, Dr. Hugh Horner, Lougheed, Dave Russell, Don Getty. Lougheed's team won six out of 65 seats, making them official opposition to Ernest Manning's Socreds, which had 55 seats.

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Peter Lougheed, leader of the official opposition, at the PC annual meeting at the Palliser Hotel. He took over as leader of the Progressive Conservatives in 1965, a party with zero members in the Alberta legislature, a body that had been dominated since 1935 by the Social Credit party.Calgary Herald file photo
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